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...Director General Charles Cabell, an experienced air man, went together to the State Department to urge Rusk to reconsider. Cabell was greatly worried about the vulnerability to air attack of the ships and then of the troops on the beach. Rusk was not impressed. The ships, he suggested, could unload and retire to the open sea before daylight; as for the troops ashore being unduly inconvenienced by Castro's air, it had been his experience as a colonel in the Burma theater that air attack could be more of a nuisance than a danger. One fact he made absolutely...
...Lady Bird Johnson, 48, who was already buying radio stations when her Vice President husband was just another new boy in Congress, was still feathering the L.B.J. nest. Having picked up KRGV-AM-TV in Weslaco, Texas, for a $245,000 song a few years back, she managed to unload it for a rhapsodic...
...orders, no ramps were rolled up to the silent plane. A fuel truck drove under its huge wing, and the ground crew hooked up a fuel line. "It was strange," recalls Second Officer Norman Simmons. "A routine landing in every way, except that we didn't unload passengers or baggage." Aboard the jet the passengers sat in shocked silence as a hostess instructed them to stay in their seats: "We may be flying on to Havana." Cody Bearden lounged in the doorway of the cabin, casually swinging his .45 revolver and keeping a sullen eye on the frightened passengers...
Dead of Night. For the sake of secrecy, the area had been cleared of all workers, but to the consternation of the police official who hurried on board, the Soviet captain could not or would not use his ship's cranes to unload his cargo, meaning that scores of local stevedores had to be awakened and rushed down to do the job by hand. For five hours, until well after dawn, the sweating workers lugged thousands of cases of small arms and ammunition down to waiting police trucks. Finally, the heavily laden vehicles headed off in convoy...
...free market price began to climb, finally inched permanently past the Treasury purchase price of 90½ in 1956. In the past two years the price has been high enough to permit the U.S. to begin to unload its huge supply. Last year the U.S. was able to sell off nearly 20 million oz., had to buy only 1,000,000 oz., since U.S. silver producers were able to get a higher price in the free market...